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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Damien Gayle

More people not having children due to climate breakdown fears, finds research

A woman and a girl hold hands while watching wildfires burning in Köyceğiz district in Turkey in 2021.
A woman and a girl hold hands while watching wildfires burning in Köyceğiz district in Turkey in 2021. Photograph: Yasin Akgül/AFP/Getty Images

It was just over a decade ago that Emma Smart and her husband, Andy, first decided they would not have children. Back then, her friends and family did not understand.

“When you tell people you didn’t want to have children, that was a big social no-no,” she recalled. “And then when they asked you why, and you said for environmental reasons, that was completely unheard of.

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